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European Revivals – a Finnish National Gallery Research Project
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The Finnish National Gallery established a research project titled ‘European Revivals’ in 2009. The reason behind the project is to stimulate debate and reflect upon the phenomena surrounding European national revivals by bringing together and analysing the multifarious connections and correspondences that have helped to shape the identities of modern European nations.
This ongoing project’s aims are fostered by encouraging scholarly networking between academia and museum professionals through organising or supporting affiliated seminars and conferences, all of which explore different aspects of these phenomena. Other initiatives that will take place under the auspices of the ‘European Revivals’ project include publications and international exhibitions culminating in 2020 in a scientific publication and an international conference.
Towards the end of the 19th century, European artists began to express a new and profound interest in their unique local pasts and cultural inheritances. This was a discourse that was largely shaped by the desire within several countries for cultural and artistic, and ultimately social and economic, independence. Art-historical scholarship on the subject has been broadly established, but the ‘European Revivals’ project also strives to examine parallel phenomena from a wider-scale, international perspective.
As part of the project, a series of international conferences has already been organised, with the first taking place in 2009 in Helsinki. Each ‘European Revivals’ conference has its specific theme, title and organising team.
Here we give information on future conferences with links to the conference web sites. We also list here the previous conferences with their programmes.
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Conferences
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2020
Art, Life and Place: Looking at European Transnational Exchange in the Long 19th Century
International Conference, 20–23 January 2020
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
Download the conference programme as a PDF
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2017
European Revivals Conference 2017: Cultural Mythologies around 1900
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
1–2 December 2017
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2015
European Revivals Conference 2015: Artists’ Colonies and Nature in Art, Architecture and Design around 1900
The Tatra Museum, Zakopane, and Krakow, Poland
23–25 September 2015
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2014
European Revivals Conference 2014: Aesthetic Values in the National Context
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
23–24 October 2014
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2012
European Revivals Conference 2012: Modern Identities
Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
10–12 October 2012
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2009
European Revivals Conference 2009: Myths, Legends and Dreams of a Nation
Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
6–8 May 2009
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